Food poisoning outbreaks could prove a boon to RFID
ComputerWorld
Recent national outbreaks of E.coli and salmonella poisoning are likely to prompt government mandates requiring that food products be tracked throughout their life cycles -- and that could prove to be a boon for radio frequency identification technologies. The new mandates would come just as other first-generation track-and-trace tools start to spread through the pharmaceutical industry, which was the first to face such government mandates, analysts said.